{"id":549544,"date":"2026-07-14T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/549544\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:18:07","slug":"body-found-on-beach-believed-to-be-missing-fisherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/549544\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found on beach believed to be missing fisherman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a man which washed up on the beach at Enniscrone, Co Sligo today is believed to be that of a fisherman who has been missing since last Sunday week.<\/p>\n<p>The man, believed to be a foreign national, fell from a high cliff while shore fishing close to the Dun Briste sea stack, near Downpatrick Head in north Mayo.<\/p>\n<p>The Gr\u00e1inne \u00daaile Sub Aqua Club and the Mayo Search and Rescue Unit, along with Ballyglass RNLI Lifeboat and the Sligo-based Coast Guard helicopter had been involved in the lengthy search and rescue operation.<\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s body has been removed from the scene in Enniscrone and taken to a hospital morgue for a post mortem examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a man which washed up on the beach at Enniscrone, Co Sligo today is believed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-549544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}